Proto-Indo-European

*wéǵʰeti

‘to be transporting’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰeti.

16 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰeti, most familiar first.

• halfway ← halfwey ← healfweġ ← weġ ← *weg
• vector ← vehō ← *weɣō
• weigh ← weyen ← wegan ← *wegan ← *weganą
• wee ← wey ← wǣġ ← *wāgu ← *wēgō
• headway ← hauedwei ← hēafodweġ ← weġ ← *weg
• wonky ← wankel ← wancol ← *wankul ← *wankōn
• eunuch ← eunuk ← eunūchus ← εὐνοῦχος ← ϝέχω
• voiture ← vectūra ← vehō ← *weɣō
• devex ← dēvexus ← dēvehō ← vehō ← *weɣō
• devexity ← devexitas ← devexus ← dēvehō ← vehō
• evection ← evectiōnem ← evectiō ← ēvehō ← vehō
• invection ← invectio ← invehō ← vehō ← *weɣō

More words from *wéǵʰeti

• provect
• vecture
• voiturette
• wankle

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰeti